Dr. Dina Pomeranz

Biography

Dina Pomeranz's research focuses on public policies in developing countries, particularly in the areas of taxation, public procurement, and firm development. Prior to joining the University of Zurich, she was an assistant professor at Harvard Business School where she taught entrepreneurship to MBA students, and she also served as a Post-Doctoral Fellow at MIT's Poverty Action Lab. Her work has been published in prestigious academic journals like the American Economic Review, Quarterly Journal of Economics, American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, and the Journal of Economic Development and Human Resources. In 2017, she was awarded a prestigious grant from the European Research Council (ERC) for her research on the role of tax evasion in firm networks. She is an affiliate professor with the Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab (J-PAL) and the Bureau for Research and Economic Analysis Development (BREAD), and she is a member of the Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR) and the International Growth Centre (IGC). In 2018, Pomeranz was elected to the Council of the European Economic Association (EEA), and in 2020, she joined the Board of Management of the International Institute of Public Finance (IIPF). Furthermore, she co-founded the Graduate Applications International Network (GAIN), which supports prospective students from Africa who are applying to graduate school in economics-related fields. Professor Pomeranz aims to contribute to the evidence-based policy-making movement in developing and economically advanced countries, serving on the advisory boards of several social enterprise ventures that are committed to translating research into practice.

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